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Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Six protestors who demonstrated in front of the New York City offices of #Palantir Technologies
were arrested on Thursday morning.
The demonstrators had gathered to bring attention to the controversial firm and the work it does to power the deportation of immigrants from the US.
The protestors stood in front of the Palantir offices on Manhattan’s Avenue of the Americas,
linking arms…

"Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation"
#Bangladesh #Trees #Biodiversity

Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation
With an aim to protect biodiversity that’s become fragmented and is scattered across the country, Bangladesh is listing all the old, sacred and socially important trees and forests. The Forest Department has been collecting information from the locals in various parts of the country about locations and details of sites that are centuries-old and sacred […]

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

« Les queers ont toujours existé Š la campagne » : derrière l’essor des Prides partout en France, la visibilité des personnes LGBTQIA hors des grandes villes
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« Les queers ont toujours existé à la campagne » : derrière l’essor des Prides partout en France, la visibilité des personnes LGBTQIA + hors des grandes villes
Après des années de centralisation militante de la question queer dans les grandes villes, la liste des « Prides rurales » ne cesse de s’allonger, allant du village à la ville moyenne. « Le Monde » a interrogé plusieurs collectifs.

[OT] Protecting science: TIB builds dark archive for arXiv #arXiv; …

Protecting Science: TIB builds Dark Archive for arXiv - TIB-Blog
Research and science are international; it is not for nothing that we speak of international specialist communities. Although a service such as arXiv is operated by an institution based in the USA, namely Cornell University, it is used by researchers worldwide. Part of arXiv‘s funding has also been internationalised since 2010 with the introduction of arXiv membership. The TIB finances the German contribution together with the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) and the Max…

A profile of London-based CloudNC, a leading provider of AI-powered CNC software that is helping US manufacturers overcome a shortage of trained operators (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/ai-manufacturing-parts-cnc-machines…

Can AI help America make stuff again? 
A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

On June 28th at noon I will be at 76th & Bluemound protesting... Join me if you want to hang out!
#protest #resist #fascism

Differential contributions of low-frequency phase and power in crossmodal temporal prediction: A MEG study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.26.656128v1 on "tactile-to-visual influences on temporal prediction", "broad applicability of …

Differential contributions of low-frequency phase and power in crossmodal temporal prediction: A MEG study
Introduction Our representation of time is embedded within multisensory perception, based on sight, sound, or touch. However, despite being a crucial aspect of daily life, the neural dynamics of cross-modal temporal predictions remain elusive. The objective of this study was to investigate neural correlates of tactile-to-visual influences on temporal prediction using magnetoencephalography (MEG). We hypothesized to observe increased inter-trial phase consistency (ITPC) in the low-frequency delt…

"Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources"
#Chile #Environment

Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources
Daniel Caniullán has been diving in the cold waters of the Guaitecas Archipelago in northern Patagonia, Chile, for more than 30 years. “Just by looking at the seabed landscape, you can tell what species you are going to find,” he says. Just as it is possible to recognize the loss of a diverse forest on […]